[Gnso-epdp-team] Fwd: [Iwgdpt-list] Press Release of the Secretariat: Working Paper "Standards for data protection in cross-border data requests" released

[Stephanie Perrin]

Colleagues might be interested in this paper on cross border law 
enforcement issues and data protection standards.

Stephanie Perrin


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Betreff: [Internationale-presse-liste] Press Release / Working Paper
"Data Protection in cross-border data requests" released
Datum: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 12:10:38 +0200
Von: Presse <presse at datenschutz-berlin.de>
An: internationale-presse-liste at datenschutz-berlin.de

PRESS RELEASE


Data protection in cross-border data requests for law enforcement purposes
Berlin Group calls for standards

The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications
(so-called Berlin
Group), chaired by the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and
Freedom of Information, Maja Smoltczyk, has adopted the Working Paper
‘Standards for data protection and personal privacy
in cross-border data requests for criminal law enforcement purposes’ at
its 63 rd meeting in Budapest (Hungary) on 9 and 10 April 2018.

Law enforcement has become an international undertaking. As data is more
and more exchanged and stored around the world law enforcement
authorities increasingly seek access to personal data
held beyond their national borders in criminal investigations. In the
light of this development transborder access to cloud data has been
identified as high priority by governments and led them to take
actions in this field. However, cross-border data requests present
difficult questions of compliance with national and international data
protection and privacy standards.

Traditional arrangements to facilitate international coordination by law
enforcement agencies as they work now are said to be overburdened by the
increasing frequency and complexity of cross-border
data requests. However, alternate arrangements for transferring data,
like voluntary arrangements between providers and foreign governments,
can be subject to varied or unknown standards, do not
have force of law, and so provide little assurance of protection for the
rights of data subjects.

In its recently published Working Paper the Berlin Group urges that
current and future legal frameworks must maintain strong data protection
standards and makes recommendations for appropriate
safeguards. The Working Group calls on governments and international
organisations to preserve data protection and privacy interests while
encouraging prompt and adequate processing of legitimate cross-border
data requests.

The Working Paper is available for download at
http://www.berlin-privacy-group.org

About the International Working Group on Data Protection in
Telecommunications (“Berlin Group”)
The International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications
(IWGDPT, a.k.a. “Berlin Group”) includes representatives from Data
Protection Authorities and international organisations dealing with
privacy matters from all over the world. It was founded in 1983 in the
framework of the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy
Commissioners at the initiative of the Berlin Commissioner for Data
Protection, who has since then been chairing the Group. The Group has
adopted numerous recommendations (“Common Positions” and “Working
Papers”) aimed at improving the protection of privacy in
telecommunications. Since the beginning of the 90s the Group has focused
particularly on the protection of privacy on the Internet.

More information about the Work of the Group and the documents adopted
by the Group are available for
download on the website of the Group at http://www.berlin-privacy-group.org.

-- 
International Working Group
on Data Protection
in Telecommunications

- Secretariat - Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection
and Freedom of Information (Germany)

Berliner Beauftragter für Datenschutz
und Informationsfreiheit
An der Urania 4 - 10
D - 10787 Berlin
Germany

Phone: +49 30 13889 - 0
Fax: +49 30 215 50 50
E-Mail: IWGDPT at datenschutz-berlin.de
http://www.berlin-privacy-group.org




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